WIGHT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Wight mean? 

• WIGHT (noun)
  The noun WIGHT has 2 senses:

1. a human being; 'wight' is an archaic term

2. an isle and county of southern England in the English Channel

  Familiarity information: WIGHT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIGHT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A human being; 'wight' is an archaic term

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

creature; wight

Hypernyms ("wight" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An isle and county of southern England in the English Channel

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Isle of Wight; Wight

Hypernyms ("Wight" is a kind of...):

county ((United Kingdom) a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government)

Instance hypernyms:

isle; islet (a small island)

Holonyms ("Wight" is a part of...):

British Isles (Great Britain and Ireland and adjacent islands in the north Atlantic)

English Channel (an arm of the Atlantic Ocean that forms a channel between France and Britain)

 Context examples 

She thinks of nothing but the Isle of Wight, and she calls it the Island, as if there were no other island in the world.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

It is about one third as large as the Isle of Wight, and extremely fruitful: it is governed by the head of a certain tribe, who are all magicians.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

To the left lay the green Island of Wight, with its long, low, curving hills peeping over each other's shoulders to the sky-line; to the right the wooded Hampshire coast as far as eye could reach; above a steel-blue heaven, with a wintry sun shimmering down upon them, and enough of frost to set the breath a-smoking.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I wired to Gravesend and learned that she had passed some time ago, and as the wind is easterly I have no doubt that she is now past the Goodwins and not very far from the Isle of Wight.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The scenes in its neighbourhood, Charmouth, with its high grounds and extensive sweeps of country, and still more, its sweet, retired bay, backed by dark cliffs, where fragments of low rock among the sands, make it the happiest spot for watching the flow of the tide, for sitting in unwearied contemplation; the woody varieties of the cheerful village of Up Lyme; and, above all, Pinny, with its green chasms between romantic rocks, where the scattered forest trees and orchards of luxuriant growth, declare that many a generation must have passed away since the first partial falling of the cliff prepared the ground for such a state, where a scene so wonderful and so lovely is exhibited, as may more than equal any of the resembling scenes of the far-famed Isle of Wight: these places must be visited, and visited again, to make the worth of Lyme understood.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Do you know, we asked her last night which way she would go to get to Ireland; and she said, she should cross to the Isle of Wight.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)